Is The Assault On Voting Rights Getting Worse?

Taegan Goddard, Political Wire
Tue, 10/23/2018 - 12:32pm

Rick Hasen: “In some ways we are really talking about two Americas. In one part of America, voting is getting easier. Many blue states, and even some red ones, have moved to adopt automatic voter registration. Many red and purple states have much more generous periods of early voting than blue states; early in-person voting started Oct.

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